The hardest thing with martial arts is the weight cut. To train many times a week in my opinion is not hard or even twice a day, cause the sport is my passion and I am usually looking forward every training. The only thing that makes it hard is the weigh cut before a fight/competition.
I remember first time I overheard some training partners when I was younger talking about the struggle with weight cut and I remember me thinking "naah it is probably not that hard". But yes it is, cause it haunts you 24/7. Knowing you need to weigh a certain weight at a certain date is stressful.
I eat really clean normally and have kind of a "strict diet" I don't wanna call it a strict diet cause I see it more as a lifestyle and in my opinion that is not hard. I don't have often cravings after for example sugar or alcohol. But they are not eliminated. I have periods in my life when I feel like drinking more and periods I don't drink at all. But when I know I need to cut weight it is like my brain only thinks about everything I can't eat and want it even though I normally don't eat it.
Normally I weigh 66 kg and I am now competing in -61.5 kg, that means I need to be 61.5 or less this Saturday when I am going to Finnish open, which is a NoGi- competition. This morning I was 62.8 kg so I am close, but not yet there.
People ask me why I do it. Answer is simple, I wanna win.
Pictures are from this weeks training.
